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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Book Review of DEADLINE by Clair M. Poulson

DeadlineBy Clair M. Poulson

It was my plan that when I finished the first edit of my book Just Another Player that I would take a break from writing and read a book or two before I started on the big next edit of my book. My quandary was whether to read a book in a similar genre as I’m writing in or should I read something totally different. I chose to read something of a comparable genre.

.The first book I chose to read was Deadline by Clair M. Poulson. I love reading his books and I believe I have all of them. I chose Deadline even though I have the CD’s of it already. Why, you might ask? Because I wanted to use it for a workbook; I wanted to mark it all up with a pencil and you can’t do that with a CD. I read and marked all through it and was glad of my choice. I found that I had forgotten part of the plot from the CD’s and was rewarded all over again by my read.

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Clair M. Poulson is one of those authors that when you read one of his books you want them all..

Deadline is about a newspaper reporter named Dallas Dixon; the action and intrigue begins in the beginning when Dallas is fired from a prestigious Newspaper by his formerly admiring boss, for no apparent reason. He decides to leave town and start anew in another part of Texas - where the El Paso Chronicle can’t influence any new job he may try for.

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Things go from bad to worse when halfway to San Antonio, Dallas is shocked when he hears a news bullitin on the radio about his boss’s murder – and Dallas himself is then named as suspect giving his physical description and that of his truck.

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He then becomes embroiled in a drug smuggling ring when he tries to be a Good-Samaritan to a trucker along the road to San Antonio. Using his military training he’s able to escape one escapade after another.

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Heather, a colleague at the paper, is his confidante and becomes embroiled in helping prove Dallas’s innocence. Heather’s own life is then put in jeopardy as she unwittingly stumbles on some truths about Andy Norton, Dallas’s murdered boss..

Then comes the cat and mouse run for their lives, when the thugs begin trying to kill both Heather and Dallas. They decide that they will be safer together or at least not have to worry about each other, so they join forces. They are rescued and helped by an unlikely person who takes them into hiding….

If I tell you more I may give the story away… but suffice it to say that Deadline is an action packed, keep you on the edge of your seat suspense that is full of twists and turns in the story that make it a must read!.I loved this book and highly recommend it... Joyce

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I'm a daughter of God; a wife; mother of seven; and grandmother of twenty-three. I write; paint; and have numerous interests.
I grew up on a farm in Arizona but have lived in Spain, Alaska, and various places in the continental U.S. while my husband served in the US Air Force for 20+ years.